FRIDAY
DECEMBER 1
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This 10-part German series is produced, imported and presented today by Netflix, as part of its quest, in TV entertainment terms, of literal world domination. It’s a moody mystery genre thriller – think The Returned in global TV terms, or Twin Peaks: The Return closer to home – and is set in two distinct time periods: the very near future (2019) and the fairly distant past (1986), with a third time frame (1953) thrown in for good measure. And in a remote German village where the nearby woods are the stuff of classic fairy tales, those two time periods intersect, like a Venn diagram of time-traveling weirdness. Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome… For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 5 of this ABC Marvel series begins with a two-parter that is out of this world. Well, it’s in orbit, anyway, as Colson and his squad find themselves on a strange space ship, in orbit in outer space.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

This new documentary special – part biography, part concert and performance retrospective – covers the 50-year career of Cat Stevens, the musician whose contributions to the film Harold & Maude, and his hugely popular introspective singer-songwriter LPs of the early Seventies, briefly put him at the top of the pop music business. Then he quit, to focus on his family and his faith, converted to Islam, and changed his name to Yusef. He returned to music, and recording, in the 2000s, and A Cat’s Attic covers all those changes, and a lot of the music. Included: “Father and Son,” “Peace Train,” “Tea for the Tillerman,” “Into White,” “Wild World” and “Moonshadow.” If none of those songs rings a bell, you’re either very young, or very old. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

MGM HD, 10:00 p.m. ET

John Cleese is hilarious in this 1988 comedy, playing a button-down British barrister named Archie Leach (Cary Grant’s real name, by the way). In this film, Cleese falls under the spell of a con woman played by Jamie Lee Curtis. She’s a riot, too – but as good as Cleese and Curtis are, they’re eclipsed by this film’s co-stars: Michael Palin as a stuttering villain, and Kevin Kline, who won an Oscar for his role here, as a short-tempered accomplice.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.